Development Lead – .NET, Azure & MS SQL

Roles & Responsibilities :

We are looking for an experienced Development/Technical Lead – .NET & Azure to lead the design, development, modernization, and technical delivery of enterprise applications.

The ideal candidate should bring strong hands-on expertise in C#, .NET / ASP.NET Core, Microsoft Azure, MS SQL Server, Stored Procedures, REST APIs, and DevOps , along with the ability to guide development teams, review technical designs, resolve complex issues, and drive engineering best practices.

The role also requires a foundational understanding of AI/Generative AI concepts and the ability to identify opportunities for incorporating AI capabilities into enterprise applications.

Key Responsibilities

.NET Development/Technical Lead

• Lead the design and development of enterprise applications using C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, Web API, Entity Framework Core , Angular and related technologies.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance to developers throughout design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Perform code reviews, technical design reviews, and root-cause analysis for complex application issues.
• Establish coding standards and promote SOLID principles, design patterns, clean architecture, reusable components, and maintainable code .
• Guide developers and mentor team members to strengthen overall engineering capability.
• Support technical estimation, sprint/release planning, dependency management, and technical risk identification.

MS SQL Server & Stored Procedures

The candidate should have strong hands-on database development experience , not merely application-level exposure to SQL.

• Strong expertise in Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) .
• Hands-on experience designing and developing complex Stored Procedures, Functions, Views, Triggers, and SQL scripts .
• Strong understanding of T-SQL , joins, subqueries, CTEs, transactions, temporary tables, indexing, and data manipulation.
• Experience analyzing and optimizing complex SQL queries and Stored Procedures for performance.
• Ability to troubleshoot database performance issues including inefficient queries, locking, blocking, deadlocks, and long-running transactions.
• Good understanding of execution plans, indexing strategies, query optimization, and database performance tuning .
• Experience integrating .NET applications with SQL Server using Entity Framework Core, ADO.NET, or similar data-access approaches .
• Ability to review database code and establish SQL development and database design standards.
• Understanding of data integrity, security, transaction management, backup/recovery, and database design principles.

Microsoft Azure

• Hands-on experience developing and deploying applications using Microsoft Azure .
• Understanding of cloud-native architecture, scalability, resiliency, high availability, security, and cost considerations .
• Experience modernizing traditional or legacy .NET applications toward modern .NET and Azure-based solutions .

API & Integration

• Strong experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and Web APIs .
• Understanding of synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns.
• Experience with enterprise application integration and messaging.
• Knowledge of authentication and authorization concepts such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, and Microsoft Entra ID .
• Ability to design secure, scalable, reusable APIs and integration components.

DevOps & Engineering Practices

• Experience with Azure DevOps and/or GitHub .
• Strong understanding of Git, branching strategies, pull requests, CI/CD, automated builds, testing, and deployment .
• Experience with automated unit and integration testing.
• Knowledge of code-quality, dependency, and security scanning practices.
• Exposure to Docker, Bicep, Terraform, or Infrastructure as Code is advantageous.
• Experience establishing application logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability.

AI & Generative AI Fundamentals

The candidate is not expected to be an AI/ML specialist , but should have a good understanding of modern AI concepts and their relevance to application development.

Security & Quality

• Drive secure coding practices covering authentication, authorization, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and API security.
• Ensure adequate unit testing, integration testing, code coverage, and quality gates .
• Drive resolution of technical debt and application vulnerabilities.
• Ensure applications meet agreed performance, reliability, maintainability, and security expectations.

Technical Lead Responsibilities

• Act as the primary technical point of contact for the development team.
• Translate functional/business requirements into appropriate technical designs.
• Make technical decisions within the application/team scope and escalate architecture-level decisions when required.
• Work closely with Solution Architects, Product Owners, Business Analysts, DevOps, Cloud and Infrastructure teams .
• Mentor developers and support knowledge sharing within the team.
• Coordinate technical delivery across development and supporting teams.
• Identify technical risks and dependencies early and drive appropriate mitigation.
• Support production troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for critical technical issues.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering , or a related discipline.
• Preferably 8+ years of software development experience , with substantial hands-on development in the Microsoft technology stack.
• Strong hands-on experience in .NET/C#, MS SQL Server, Stored Procedures, REST APIs, and Microsoft Azure .
• Demonstrated experience working as a Technical Lead or Senior Developer with technical leadership responsibilities .

Experience leading technical delivery and mentoring software developers

Educational qualification:

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science or equivalent

Experience :

12-14 Yrs in Software development cycle in Microsoft Technologies

Lead a team of 6-8 developers in the current / past role

Mandatory/requires Skills :

C#

• .NET / ASP.NET Core
• MS SQL
• Stored Procedures
• Web API / REST
• Angular, TypeScript
• SQL Server / T-SQL
• Azure, Azure SQL
• Microsoft Entra ID / SSO
• OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect

Preferred Skills :

• Docker / Containers
• Azure Functions
• Microservices
• On-premises to Azure migration experience